October 2: Ronald Reagan makes his screen debut with the release of the film Love Is on the Air, also starring June Travis.

October 3: Thousands of members of the British Union of Fascists march through the London district of Bermondsey to mark the fifth anniversary of the organization's founding. Anti-fascists jeer and threw eggs, bricks and other objects as 3,000 police fight to maintain order. Over 100 arrests are made.

October 10: Sir Oswald Mosley is knocked unconscious by a stone that struck him in the head when he stood on a truck to address a Fascist rally in Liverpool.

October 10: The New York Yankees win the World Series for the second straight year, four games to one, with a 4-2 defeat of the New York Giants.

October 11: The Duke of Windsor and his wife begin a visit to Nazi Germany, arriving at Berlin Friedrichstraße station by train from Paris. The duke is taken on a tour of a factory by German Labour Front leader Robert Ley.

October 11: Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne begin their second visit to Nazi Germany. Over the next two weeks Colonel Lindbergh will be shown the Focke-Wulf, Henschel and Daimler-Benz factories and permitted to examine the Dornier Do 17 bomber and Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.

October 15: The Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not is published.

October 16: Jean de Brunhoff French writer, illustrator and creator of Babar the Elephant dies aged 37.

October 22: The Duke of Windsor and his wife meet Adolf Hitler at the Berghof. As they depart Hitler makes the Nazi salute, which the Duke returns.

October 30: The British cargo ship Jean Weems is bombed and sunk by warplanes off the coast of Catalonia. A Daily Herald correspondent identifies one of the pilots who sank the ship as Benito Mussolini's son Bruno. (source: Wikipedia)